Hours - Pollocks - Napier - Tauranga
Our gallery at Level 2/147 Cuba Street will close on Friday 23 December and reopen on Wednesday 25 January with Poetry of Silence, featuring works by Desiree Dolron, Neil Pardington and Douglas Stichbury.
Opening on Friday 13 January at 108 Oriental Parade is Never Mind The Pollocks, an evolving touring exhibition of male contemporary artists based in New Zealand, curated by James R Ford. Featuring works by artists (Ford, Wayne Youle, Sean Kerr and Linden Simmons) who employ intellect, keen observation and a lightness of touch in their work.
Selected works by Fiona and Neil Pardington will be on show at Photographers' Gallery Hawke's Bay (138 Tennyson Street, Napier) from 10 February thru until the end of March.
We will present two one-week pop-up exhibitions at 95 Willow Street (front of the Civic Arcade, opposite the Tauranga Art Gallery) from 12-25 February. Strive Towards Your Destiny, the first exhibition, groups Irene Ferguson, Arie Hellendoorn and Douglas Stichbury who exhibited together for the first time in 2008 at City Gallery Wellington. During the second week prints from Ans Westra's 1963 series Washday at the Pa will be on show.
18 December 11
O Bay gallery to be dedicated to Ans Westra
From mid March 2012 our gallery annex at 108 Oriental Parade, Wellington will be dedicated to exhibiting works by New Zealand Arts Icon, Ans Westra. Exhibitions will be organised by book with the first show featuring prints from Westra's first book Maori (1967). More details about the Westra exhibition agenda will be published in early 2012.
Washday at the Pa was featured in the New Zealand Herald on Saturday and reviewed today on BookieMonster.
12 December 11
Pardingtons scoop awards - Westra @ Crane
The New Zealand Arts Foundation held its first national awards ceremony on Tuesday. Fiona Pardington was awarded one of the five Laureate Awards on the night while Neil Pardington picked up the Marti Friedlander Photographic Award.
Twelve prints from Ans Westra's Washday at the Pa series are on show during December at Crane Brothers, 99 Custom House Quay, Wellington. Copies of the new edition of the book are available from Level 2/147 Cuba St. You may also email info@suite.co.nz or call +64 4 976 7663 to order a copy.
1 December 11
More Washday at the Pa Press Coverage - Boyce
Roger Boyce's exhibition Aotearoa; A Pictorial Allegory has been reviewed by John Hurrell on Eyecontact and TJ McNamara for the New Zealand Herald.
The latest press about Washday at the Pa includes Paul Diamond's book review on Radio New Zealand Nine-to-Noon, Bryan Crump's interview of Ans Westra and David Alsop on Radio New Zealand Nights, and profile in the December issue of Mindfood Magazine. The Manawatu Standard also reported on the book but misquoted David Alsop with regard to the content of the first edition, and incorrectly implied that the Maori Women's Welfare League and Department of Education accepted the photos of 'kids smoking Minties wrappers'. Those photos were only in the second (privately published) edition of the book.
Washday at the Pa closes this Saturday at 4pm. Copies of the new edition of the book are available from Level 2/147 Cuba St. You may also email info@suite.co.nz or call +64 4 976 7663 to order a copy.
Our final exhibition of the year at Level 2/147 Cuba Street will be open from 11am on 30 November. Titled The Great News this group exhibition features works by Wayne Youle, Fiona Pardington, Irene Ferguson and Arie Hellendoorn.
21 November 11
Washday at the Pa Press Coverage - 10:13
Ans Westra's Washday at the Pa was featured in the Dominion Post and Gisborne Herald yesterday.
The Gisborne Herald reported that ‘the Maori Women's Welfare League has withdrawn its opposition: "The family has had a long and trusting relationship with Ans and, at the end of the day, it's their story," said MWWL general manager Jacqui Te Kani. "If they want to agree to the pictures being used, then that's their prerogative."'
Works by Arie Hellendoorn and Douglas Stichbury feature in 10:13 an exhibition of Graduate fine arts students from Massey University School of Fine Arts first ten years. Curated by Kate Adolph and Johnathon Titheridge, the exhibiton is on at the Engine Room, Massey University, Wellington until 19 November.
4 November 11
Billy Apple - Two Gallery Abstracts
Billy Apple's exhibition Two Gallery Abstracts has opened at 108 Oriental Parade. An Apple gallery abstract is a painting or drawing based on the floorplan of the space in which it is (or was first) exhibited. As site specific works, they point out the idiosyncratic character of the various spaces they occupy and depict.
Gallery abstract works have a long history in Apple's practice, beginning with a 1969 floor plan of his not-for profit space, Apple at 161 West 23rd St NYC. They include works based on The Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam and Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland.
The two paintings in this exhibition are based on the floorplan of {Suite} Gallery's Oriental Bay annex, which was once the "grotty garage" made famous by prestigious New Zealand Vodka brand 42 Below.
28 October 11
Washday at the Pa - book launch and exhibition
Forty-seven years ago Ans Westra provided the text and forty-four images for a Department of Education journal made for primary schools. Titled Washday at the Pa the book followed a day in the life of a rural Maori family of eight children awaiting relocation to a state house in the city.
Following protests by the Maori Women Welfare League Washday at the Pa was controversially withdrawn from circulation. The League condemned Westra's depiction of the poor, rural Maori family living in sub-standard housing as untruthful and inaccurate. Westra defended the integrity of the images and as copyright owner later in 1964 published the second edition through the Caxton Press.
Opening on 26 October is an exhibition of prints by Ans Westra from Washday at the Pa. The exhibition supports the publication of the third edition of Washday at the Pa, which features images made for the 1964 first and second editions of the book as well as images made by Westra in 1998 as part of a subsequent project: Washday at the Pa Revisited. Accompanying Westra's images is text by Mark Amery.
Copies of the new edition of Washday at the Pa may be ordered from the gallery for $24.95. Supported by Creative New Zealand, the project is coordinated by David Alsop.
17 October 11
Nature Morte in Melbourne - Painter Speaks
Roger Boyce and Marie-Claire Brehaut's abandoned tableau vivant - Nature Morte - opens on 29 September at Westspace in Melbourne. Nature Morte travels thereafter to First Draft in Sydney and opens 2 November - with Robert Hood and James Oram.
Roger Boyce's exhibition Painter Speaks is open at Level 2/147 Cuba St, Wellington. In addition to the seven new paintings on show we have a few drawings on hand of images from Roger Boyce: The Illustrated History of Painting.
24 September 11
Youle Wellesley residency exhibition - Facebook
Paintings and sculptures made by Wayne Youle during his recent residency at Wellesley College will be on show at in the school's artroom (611a Marine Drive, Days Bay, Lower Hutt) from 21 September at 7.00 pm until 23 September.
We have re-established a Facebook page for {Suite} Gallery. Please click thru to 'Like' the page.
9 September 11
Boyce a Wallace Awards Finalist - Immortally Yours
Roger Boyce is a finalist in the 2011 Wallace Art Awards for his entry In the Land of the Blind the One-eyed Cantabrian is King. The Awards will be annouced and presented on 5 September at the Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland.
Fiona Pardington's exhibition .... Immortally Yours has opened at Level 2/147 Cuba Street. Fiona's work can also be seen in Oceania: Imagining the Pacific, on show at City Gallery Wellington until 6 November 2011.
28 August 11
Roger Boyce: The Illustrated History of Painting
{Suite} Publishing has published Roger Boyce: The Illustrated History of Painting. The publication documents Boyce's series of one hundred paintings, which was exhibited at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu from 13 August - 14 November. The Illustrated History of Painting also includes essays by Justin Paton, author of Montana Award-winner How to Look at a Painting and Eleanor Heartney, independent art critic and writer for Art in America and The New York Times.
To order a copy of Roger Boyce: The Illustrated History of Painting email or call us on +64 4 976 7663.
15 August 11
Upcoming exhibitions - Small & Beautiful takeaways
On show at 108 Oriental Parade until 18 August is Who Do You Think You Are? Curated by Scott Compton & Rebecca Menza the exhibition includes three paintings made in 2009 by Arie Hellendoorn and a range of ceramic works by Jocelyn Mills.
A few small works by Wayne Youle feature in Small & Beautiful takeaways, which opens at the Mahara Gallery on Saturday 13 August at 5pm. Later that evening one of Fiona Pardington's works will be auctioned in Wellington by Art + Object at the Labour Party Art Auction.
Opening at 530pm on Friday 19 August at 108 Oriental Parade is David Boyce's exhibition Short Stories. On the same evening is the unveiling of Pilgrimage, an installation by David Boyce and Andy Palmer in the Courtenay Place Park light boxes.
Opening at 530pm on Thursday 25 August at Level 2/147 Cuba Street is Fiona Pardington's exhibition ... Immortally Yours. The exhibition features six works made recently while Fiona was in Paris completing a Laureate Artistic Creations Project with the Musee du Quai Branly.
11 August 11
Fiona Pardington pop up show - Inward/Outward
A Fiona Pardington pop up exhibition will take place on Tuesday 2 August from 430-6pm in Meeting Room 2, Level 22, DLA Phillips Fox Tower, 209 Queen Street, Auckland. The exhibition will include five Pardington works including Akura's Pansies and Paul's Poppy, which are both making their worldwide exhibition debut on Tuesday ahead of the Auckland Art Fair.
Opening on Friday at Level 2/147 Cuba Street is Arie Hellendoorn's exhibition Inward/Outward. In the paintings in this exhibition figures don masks with tentacle like formations, patch work figures reminiscent of computer pixelations free-fall and dance, and the internal contents of the head are playfully exposed.
26 July 11
Auckland Art Fair artists - exhibitions on show
Anton Parsons' exhibition Another Rotation has opened at Level 2/147 Cuba Street. The show includes six sculptural works and several small works on paper, and runs until 23 July.
Opening today at Aratoi in Masterton is an exhibition of new works by Irene Ferguson. Titled Torrid Grey the show includes seventeen paintings, and runs until 7 August.
We will be showing Anton and Irene's works at the Auckland Art Fair (4-7 August) alongside works by Fiona Pardington, Wayne Youle, Roger Boyce and Geoffrey Notman.
On show at 108 Oriental Parade until 17 July is Geoffrey H. Short's exhibition Towards Another (Big Bang) Theory. Short's work is included in the survey exhibition and book "reGeneration2 - tomorrow's photographers today" produced by the Musée d l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland and touring internationally.
2 July 11
Press Coverage - Youle various
{Suite} Gallery featured twice in the Dominion Post on May 14. The first time was as part of a comprehensive feature by Diane Dekker about the LJ Steele Tamarere exhibition, and Steele's relationship with Charles F. Goldie. The second mention came from Mark Amery who highlighted our generosity in offering gallery space to PAULNACHE and Whitespace.
Wayne Youle's exhibition "!?" ... :) opens at our new Cuba Street gallery on 1 June. From 13 June - 8 July Youle will be the inaugural artist in residence at Wellesley College, Days Bay. An exhibition of his works made during the residency will take place in September during the Artweek at Wellesley.
From 20-25 June {Suite} Gallery will exhibit One Step Forward, One Step Back made by Youle will he was the 2010 Rita Angus Artist in Residence. During the show Wayne will give artist's talks to the Friends of Te Papa, school and corporate groups. One Step Forward, One Step Back will be open to the public on 23 and 24 June from 11-5pm, and on 25 June from 11-4pm.
21 May 11
Early Bird Gets The Worm opening - Tamarere
Early Bird Gets The Worm, our fifty-second and last exhibition at 69 Owen Street, Newtown, opens on Wednesday 27 April from 530-730pm. The show features artworks by all twelve {Suite} Gallery artists, Bob Kerr, Carlo Van de Roer and other works from our stockroom. From 23-29 May Whitespace will use the space to present an exhibition of works by Nigel Brown.
Our Oriental Parade gallery will be open Thursday-Saturday during Douglas Stichbury's Magnificent Civilisation exhibition. From 9-28 May the gallery will be open by appointment only to view one of the rarest paintings to have ever come to the market in New Zealand. Painted in 1914 by Louis John Steele, Tamarere was an important warrior and chief from Koriniti and Atene on the Whanganui River. The Steele portrait of him was on of three paintings purchased by the original owner, who was a student of the artist. He considered Steele to be the better painter although Goldie was more commercial.
23 April 11
Magnificent Civilisation opening - Transition to Cuba Street
On show from 19 April at 108 Oriental Parade is an exhibition of new paintings by Douglas Stichbury. Titled Magnificent Civilisation the exhibition includes portraits of grand ideas grown old, representing the disenchanted offspring of a modern era which failed to make its consumers richer, happier, or wiser.
Our gallery at 69 Owen Street will be closed from 20-23 April (the week before Easter) ahead of the opening on 27 April of a group show titled Early Bird Gets The Worm featuring all {Suite} Gallery artists. This will be the last scheduled exhibition in Newtown ahead of our move to Level 2, 147 Cuba Street, Wellington.
Our Cuba Street space will be operational by 12 April but we don't officially open there until 1 June with an exhibition of new works by Wayne Youle. In the meantime Bob Kerr will present a short exhibition in the space from 12-19 April. We'll warm the walls ourselves by presenting Geoffrey Notman's ‘til death do us part from 20-30 April, and Paul Nache will use the space to present a group exhibition from 4-24 May.
10 April 11
Connew, Shelton & Hewitt openings - Jacqui Wales
I Drive You Crazy, to the Moon, a suite of 24 photographs and the third in Bruce Connew's ‘I' trilogy series, opens on Thursday 24 March at 69 Owen Street. Following on from I Saw You (2007) and I Must Behave (2009), I Drive You Crazy, to the Moon continues to explore the social and political imperatives that have become characteristic concerns of Connew's practice. While the earlier editions in this series focused a critical eye on systems of surveillance and control, this current body of work grapples more abstractly with the geo-political implications of capitalist frameworks. On show alongside Connew's new works will be a selection of vintage silver gelatin prints from his underground mining series Beyond the Pale (1981/86).
Opening on 29 March at 108 Oriental Parade is Are we not drawn onward to new era by Ann Shelton and Murray Hewitt. Ann Shelton's latest project focuses on the particular histories and shared narratives of trauma, failure, and anxiety that circulate in relation to the social and cultural histories of a particular group of trees. The work in this exhibition, Seedling, Lovelock's ‘Hitler Oak', Timaru Boys High School, Timaru, New Zealand, depicts a now fully grown oak given, according to urban myth, to Jack Lovelock by Adolph Hilter, as a seedling at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
Murray Hewitt's work in this exhibition, Seven, is the fifth in a series of poetic actions. Seven has an obvious reference to Hone Heke's action of chopping down the flagstaff at Russell in the late 1840's. The setting is a rugby training ground and at first glance the pole could be one side of the rugby posts. The character wears a blanket made into a kilt, which both the government troops and Maori wore during some of the bush campaigns in the 1860s and later.
Jacqui Wales has joined {Suite} Gallery as Marketing Manager. Recently back in New Zealand following a long stint in London working as a designer and marketing manager, Jacqui wil be based at 108 Oriental Parade on Thursdays and Fridays, and most Saturdays.
21 March 11
Boyce & Cherry shows open - next show Connew
Roger Boyce's Aotearoa; A Pictorial Allegory and Robert Cherry's Sow seeds of kindness to reap a crop of Friends have opened. Works by both artists are on show at {Suite} Gallery, 69 Owen Street until 19 March, and {Suite} Gallery, 108 Oriental Parade until 10 March.
Boyce's new exhibition follows his well received Illustrated History of Painting, at Christchurch Art Gallery. Aotearoa; A Pictorial Allegory deploys the same class of symbolically slippery characters Boyce used to unpack stereotypical ideas about painting and painters. This time the artist has stylized figurative interlocutors query New Zealand's own national assumptions - prosaic or otherwise - about itself. Cherry's works are absurd constructions of objects including a fly swat, spray painted concrete block, plastic sausages, pipe cleaners, plastic bag, cobwebs and an Ethiopian fertility drum.
Opening on Friday 11 March at 108 Oriental Parade is an exhibition of new oil paintings by United Kingdom based artist Sandro Kopp. Following Kopp is a joint show by Wellington based photographer Ann Shelton and moving-image artist Murray Hewitt.
Opening on 24 March at 69 Owen Street is Bruce Connew's I Drive You Crazy, to the Moon, the third in the ‘I' trilogy. On show alongisde these new works will be a selection of vintage silver gelatin prints from Connew's underground mining series Beyond the Pale (1981/86).
26 February 11
NP triple header underway - Boyce various - Apple show
Neil Pardington's exhibitions Te Whare o Kāi Tahu and Cultural Mythologies, Selected works: 1998-2005 are open. His touring exhibition The Vault: Neil Pardington is on show until Anzac Day at City Gallery Wellington. Te Whare o Kāi Tahu is an exhibition of new works photographed at three locations in Otago - Moeraki, Puketeraki and Otakou. Cultural Mythologies features works from The Clinic, Rehutai, Hikoi, Elsewhere and Skylight series.
Opening on 2 February at Unitec in Auckland (on the fourth leg of its Australasian tour) is Roger Boyce & Marie-Claire Brehaut's tableau vivant Nature Morte.
Opening on Friday 25 February is Roger Boyce's exhibition of works made since The Illustrated History of Painting series shown recently at the Christchurch Art Gallery. The exhibition, Aotearoa; A Pictorial Allegory will show at the same time as Robert Cherry's exhibition Sow seeks of kindness to reap a crop of friends. In a first for the gallery we will mark the opening of these shows with a progressive opening, starting 530pm at 69 Owen Street, Newtown and progressing to 108 Oriental Parade by bus from 630pm.
{Suite} Gallery will host an exhibition by Billy Apple later this year.
29 January 11
Universal Solvent - Neil Pardington triple header
Universal Solvent is on show at 108 Oriental Parade until 26 January and features works by Carlo Van de Roer, Callum Arnold, Arie Hellendoorn and Douglas Stichbury.
Opening on 27 January at 69 Owen Street is an exhibition of works from Neil Pardington's latest series Te Whare o Kāi Tahu. Photographed at three locations in Otago - Moeraki, Puketeraki and Otakou - these images are inspired by Neil's Kāi Tahu whakapapa and the unique intersection of Māori and European culture in the construction and design of these whare.
Two other shows of Neil's works are on in Wellington at the same time. The Vault: Neil Pardington opens at City Gallery Wellington on 29 January. Cultural Mythologies, Selected works: 1998-2005, will be on show at 108 Oriental Parade, from 24 January.
17 January 11